Senior Design Manager

Parsons Oman; Chelmsford; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Design Manager to lead a dynamic Project Management Team. This role involves overseeing design consultants, ensuring project timelines are met, and maintaining effective communication with stakeholders. You'll manage risks, prepare reports, and support procurement efforts, all while championing continuous quality improvement. Join a forward-thinking company that values diversity and invests in employee growth, providing you with endless opportunities to thrive in your career. If you're ready to make a significant impact and drive successful project outcomes, this is the role for you.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of related work experience including 10+ years in supervisory roles.
• Professional membership of a recognized relevant organization is required.

Responsibilities

• Manage design consultants to ensure coordination between design and construction phases.
• Prepare weekly and monthly reports on task orders progress and manage design risks.

Skills

Management Skills

Communication Skills

Stakeholder Management

Negotiation Skills

Record Keeping

Education

Bachelor’s degree in architecture or related field

Tools

AUTOCAD

Civil 3D

Revit

Job description

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Design Manager to join our team! In this role, you will join a professional Project Management Team that is involved in multiple projects on a confidential development.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Provides management and direction to the design consultants to ensure coordination and consistency between design and construction phases.
• Oversees task order execution for Design Management Scope of Works under the framework agreement.
• Manage the design consultants in fulfilling its contractual obligations in relation to scope and on time deliverables.
• Identify and record scope changes in accordance with the change management plan.
• Lead and record daily/weekly design progress & engineering progress meetings with the design consultants and Client and interface coordination meetings.
• Schedule and actively participate in value engineering and constructability reviews.
• Preparation of weekly and monthly reports on task orders progress, opportunities and blockers.
• Manage design risks by updating the risk register on a weekly basis, liaising with the design consultants & Client to develop mitigation measures and escalating issues.
• Support the Procurement Team with the preparation of requests for proposal (RFP) and invitation to tenderers (ITT) procurement packages.
• Work closely with the Senior Project Manager and Commercial and Procurement Team to resolve any existing or anticipated problems related to resources, quality of work, schedule performance or productivity.
• Support Commercial Manager with evaluation of consultants variations, claims and extension of time claims.
• Actively participate in and champion the Continuous Quality Improvement by reviewing processes efficiency, arranging regular lessons learnt and making improvement recommendations.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Ability to work within established processes and to timelines set to deliver the design to meet downstream deadlines for procurement and construction.
• Proven ability to perform in a supervisory/managerial capacity, excellent written and oral communications skills, and a thorough knowledge of industry practices and regulations are required.
• Strong discipline towards keeping contemporaneous records to provide an accurate audit trail for timelines set, decisions taken and agreements made.
• Ability to manage and influence stakeholders from the client and consultant organizations to achieve successful outcomes.
• Ability to negotiate and contain conflicts.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to effectively interact with a diverse group of stakeholders.

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

• Previous experience working for a PMC within a large program with multiple consultants and a large client team.
• Bachelor’s degree in architecture (or related field) and typically 20+ years of related work experience including 10+ years in a supervisory and managerial role.
• Professional membership of a recognized relevant organization.
• Must also possess a thorough knowledge of current technology and the capabilities and efficiencies of specific engineering software (AUTOCAD, Civil 3D, Revit) for use in completing engineering assignments.

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

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